Madison Dragonflies Mating

I intend these photos as a “study”— an exercise producing a series of sketches, but in this case photographic sketches. Most of my photos reflect a great gift of tolerance, if not quite trust, on the part of the photographic object. I came across these conjoined dragonflies in the corn fields that make up one part of the Nine Springs E-Way—one of the many Dane County Parks, this one straddling Madison and Fitchburg Wisconsin.